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Lisa shook her head back and forth, attempting to clear the grogginess clouding her mind. Entering Amy's pocket had felt surreal, like walking from the real world directly into a dream.
Disoriented, the guys felt the same effects immediately upon passing into the pocket universe, as they collided into Lisa from behind.
"I should have warned you all, until things are calibrated, the isolation of our personal waves may leave us a little detached from reality," Amy announced.
As the group began to gather their senses, they looked around the room, noticing it was a mirror image of the lab they were just in, except for the lab equipment being replaced by a full sized carousel. The archway behind them gave off a green glow instead of blue, but otherwise looked identical to the one on the other side.
Everyone looked on in awe at the wooden antique carousel, painted in vivid gold and yellow. Watching painted horses and zebras rotate past on their mechanical poles, with flashing lights and carnival music playing from the center pivot, it was a beautiful, if somewhat out of place, sight to behold. In the primary universe, the carousel had only been vaguely visible through the mirrored surface of the archway. Here, inside the pocket, it rotated in all its glory, very much real.
"Cool! Classic carnival look and sound!" Jake exclaimed, as soon as he got a good look at the carousel.
"Yes! Glad you noticed! I created a template from the one down at Memorial Park. This one should be exactly the same. It's the most complex object I've been able to successfully isolate and clone," Amy stated, proud of her accomplishment.
In his still half-awake state, Jake started to whistle along with the music. Reaching down, Jake grabbed a handful of caramel popcorn.
"Would anybody like some?" Jake offered.
They all turned and stared at Jake, very much confused.
"Where did you get the popcorn?" Amy finally asked.
Jake looked up at the glowing archway, then back down at his carton of popcorn, suddenly startled, "It was just here with me..."
"You mean it just materialized? I don't know if you should eat it, might be dangerous," Tim casually replied, just before noticing caramel smeared around Jakes mouth.
"Tastes fine to me. It's the best caramel ever!" Jake said, as he grabbed another hand full.
"Oh well, you seem fine, other than still looking a little drunk from Amy's weird calibration. Amy's Pocket will protect you," giggled Lisa.
Amy concealed her excitement about the popcorn. She had hoped something might trigger a spontaneous materialization, but never expected it to come in the form of caramel popcorn. The fact that Jake was eating it would thoroughly test the K-Sphere's ability to isolate elements between universes, and hopefully allow her to make a template for materializing other things.
Amy looked down at her watch, and realized they didn't have much time, "Ahem! The K-Sphere is programmed to mix a sequence of chaotic waves throughout the pocket, focused around the carousel. We should notice more extreme effects the closer we get. If all goes well, we should experience random smells, changes to the spectrum, spatial distortions, some spatial overlap, maybe some size changes…"
Both guys perked up, smiling at the mention of size changes, imagining what type of boob growth they might witness.
Amy, noticing their excitement, simply shook her head, "I programmed it to test minor variations, and to analyze the results so it can learn what bigger changes might do. We want to bend physics today, not break it. We're just here to let the K-Sphere learn how to alter pocket physics, with us interacting."
"Alright, everyone, time to go for a spin!" Amy shouted out as she grabbed a pole, and stepped onto the carousel.
Everyone followed, with Jake making a few stumbling attempts to step on while trying to keep hold of his popcorn. Finally grabbing a pole, Jake slipped, getting dragged half way around. Tim reached down and pulled Jake all the way onto the carousel, minus the popcorn that had dropped to the floor and spontaneously disappeared.
"Thanks, buddy!" Jake slurred, still unusually groggy.
"Yeah, no problem. We guys got to stick up for- Whoa! Dude!" Tim looked suddenly concerned.
Both girls looked over from atop their carousel animals and laughed.
"What's wrong? Seriously?" Jake panicked while checking to make sure he hadn't grown a tail or anything.
"Your skin! It's all caramel colored! ... Oh, yuck, and your hands are all sticky from the popcorn," Tim said as he wiped his hands onto his pants.
Jake looked down at his caramel colored arms and shrugged, "Don't scare me like that! If all I've got is a tan, then I think I'll survive." Jake said relieved, as he jumped onto one of the brown horses as it bottomed out.
Finding a zebra, Tim jumped on, still frustrated at having caramel stuck to his hands and pants.
"We should be getting close to the spin cycle. It kicks in for the final 3 minutes!" Amy announced excitedly, as the music started to play louder.
"'Spin Cycle? That would be loads of fun, if we were all clothes!" Lisa shouted sarcastically.
"I know what type of clothing I want to be!" Tim shouted.
"Knowing you, probably something feminine and sexy that's hand wash only," Lisa replied.
"You know it!" Tim laughed, "But seriously, Amy, what's with the spin cycle? I seriously don't want to get flung off!"
"I probably should have mentioned it earlier, but didn't want to scare anyone off," Amy giggled mischievously. "The pocket will cycle through a bunch of tests without us, and then perform some tests with all of us. Space and time will be superimposed, sort of overlapping everything. It's the fastest way to test a bunch of settings all at once. Don't worry; it shouldn't effect us, too much. Just try not to get dizzy."
Within seconds, the carousel seemed to pick up speed. Strangely, it felt more like the room was spinning faster, as the air and forces on the carousel felt about the same.
In actuality the room really had begun spinning, and spinning fast, while the carousel kept the same slow rotation. Approaching the speed of light, everything outside the circumference of the carousel was literally a complete blur. Full of strange images, bursts of colors, lightning, and sparkles, nobody could see the billions of things popping in and out of existence within the blur. The K-Sphere was learning at an alarming rate.
"This is freaky! The room is spinning so fast it's becoming a blur!" Tim shouted.
"See! Just like watching the washer during a spin cycle!" Amy replied, satisfied her settings were all going as planned.
"... ooh, I smell caramel!" Tim shouted.
Jake started sniffing the air, smelling caramel coming from all around him. Sucking on a finger, he realized it tasted just like caramel candy, "Guys, I think that's me! I taste a lot of caramel! Smelling it everywhere too!" Jake announced, a little worried that his finger looked smaller after sucking on it.
"Amy! Are we supposed to be tingling? This feels kinda like the party when our boobs exploded!"
"I feel it too! Probably just the wave mixing getting ready to include us! Just go with it!"
"Yeah Lisa, Just GROW with it!" Tim shouted with excitement.
Hearing Tim's excitement, Lisa decided to have some fun at his expense. "Oh I'm growing guys! My tits are getting so huge! They're bursting out of my shirt guys!"
"Mine too!" Amy giggled, having caught on to Lisa's prank.
Both guys excitedly strained to look over at Lisa and Amy.
"We're just kidding you guys! Geesh!"
Lisa laughed at how gullible the guys were. Having fun watching the colors swirl by in the blur of the room, she twisted around on her pony trying to ignore the tingling coming from her legs. Startled by the sudden burst of cold air hitting her legs, she looked down to find her jeans replaced by a denim skirt. She watched on in amazement as the skirt started to shimmer, then change from denim to silk, shrinking down to a perfect fit.
"This is so cool, you guys! My jeans just transformed into a skirt!" Lisa shouted.
Trying not to sound too alarmed, Amy shouted back, "That wasn't supposed to happen! Did your body get all tingly and start to shimmer?"
"Just my legs, why? Is your whole body feeling it?" Lisa curiously replied.
Feeling a tingle around his legs, Tim shouted back worried, "I've got the tingle too, everything from the waist down!"
"ACK!," Tim looked down finding a pleated skirt waving around his legs.
"Dang! The skirt got me too!" Tim shouted, feeling oddly different as he examined his now hairless legs, suddenly realizing the skirt wasn't the only thing different.
"Hell yeah, Tim! I've got your legs, oh! and plus one!" Lisa giggled while unbuttoning her new pants.
"I don't think I like this. I want off!" Tim screamed in a panic as he felt air blowing up his skirt and the cold wooden horse chilling his new inner thighs.
"Don't worry sweetie, I'll make sure you get off! Besides, you're always wanting in my pants, have some fun!" Lisa giggled, playing with her newly acquired parts.
Tim stared down at himself with growing arousal, as he ran his free hand up his thigh, curiously probing into his new silky panties.
Jake looked over at Tim, laughing, "Need any help bro!"
"Just shut up man, this isn't funny!" Tim shouted, embarrassed, as he quickly removed his hand from under his skirt.
"Amy, looks like we can finally have that quality girl time! Amy?" Lisa shouted, but received no response.
Everyone looked towards Amy's horse. A pink balloon with Amy's face drawn on it was tied to the pole, swaying in the wind.
Seeing the pink balloon that Amy had transformed into, Tim's panic exploded, "What the hell! I thought it was supposed to be minor changes! Is that really Amy?"
"I guess now she's really an air head," Lisa laughed.
"Jake, you're taking things way too calmly man! Your girlfriend just turned into a frickin balloon!" Tim shouted, annoyed.
Jake, had started whistling the tune of the carousel again, but stopped to take a sip from his soda. "Nothing I can do about it! I'm sure she has a plan!"
Amy was in a panic, knowing she hadn't planned on any of this, and everyone was counting on her to fix things. She could only hope that the K-Sphere would do it's job, and everyone would be straightened out at the end of the test. Otherwise, the changes should 'untangle' as soon as they enter their own universe.
Thinking about untangling, Amy looked down, horrified, as her string started to come loose. Able to tug around on her string, she was beginning to learn how to control it, but not fast enough. Grabbing the pole before floating off had only been a reflex. She realized she was making things worse as she suddenly floated free, watching her friends pass by.
"Gotcha!" Jake yelled as he reached out to grab Amy's string, while holding his soda in his lap. Belching, Jake watched everything around him suddenly grow.
Amy watched on, relieved Jake had grabbed her, and amazed how he had suddenly shrunk directly in front of her. Amy couldn't believe how much data the K-Sphere must be collecting.
After securing Amy's string around his wrist, Jake looked down at his soda, then across at Lisa. Everything seemed to be getting blurry. " Hey guys? Is this thing getting faster or something?"
"Yeah, or something! The room's looking normal, but we're getting all blurry!" Yelled Tim.
Lisa chimed in, "I think this is that last part of the spin cycle Amy had mentioned. Something about being superimposed, space overlapping mumbo jumbo."
Everyone watched with anxiety as everything within the circumference of the carousel began to blur together, much like the room had done a few minutes earlier.
"I can see the back of my own head! I'm like, talking into my own ear!" Lisa shouted.
"And Shouting in all of ours!" Tim responded.
"Awesome! Lisa's tits!" Tim whispered as he looked down, seeing a blurred vision of everyone's body overlapped with his own.
"I see them too!" whispered Jake, with Amy now tied to one arm, and the soda back in his hand.
"Guys! I can so hear you!" Lisa screamed, temporarily deafening everyone. "Hey, stop grabbing them you guys! Those are still mine!"
Jake took a huge gulp of his soda.
"Belch!" Tim felt confused why he needed to burp, and then was suddenly eye level with Lisa's tits, as if he was looking out from her chest.
"Guy's! My legs just shrunk!" screamed Lisa, deafening everyone again.
Tim realized it must have been Jake's drink, as he shouted "Jake, The drink!"
Misunderstanding, Jake shrugged and had a long draw of soda, taking in as much as possible.
Tim felt a massive belch build up, which uncontrollably exploded. Watching as he rapidly shrunk, approached Lisa's lower half, Tim could feel even greater sensations from his feminine lower half. It only took a moment to realize the legs weren't shrinking with him. Tim could do nothing to stop the ongoing burp, or to prevent himself from being completely absorbed into Lisa's lower half.
Lisa gripped the pole for dear life with both arms, as her lower half, which had been Tim's, completely shrunk away to nothing.
"Tim! Your legs are gone! I can't hold on much longer like this! Tim?"
Looking down at the still blurred bodies, Jake replied, "I can't see Tim! Just your legs, and, um, lower half…"
Jake reached down and ran his hand along Lisa's inner thigh as if it were his own. He could feel the muscles tightened and locked to the saddle. Accidentally brushing against her panties, Jake quickly shouted, "My Bad! … Your thighs are seriously squeezing the saddle to stay on! I think Tim is still in there!"
Jake felt a tight tug on Amy's string, and looked up to see a look of surprise on the balloon's face. Looking down, he followed the tail end of her string under Lisa's skirt and into her panties.
"You naughty balloon!" Jake whispered. The face on the balloon gave a shy smile.
The blurred vision started to shift, as Lisa yelled, "I think it's slowing down!"
Jake thought he heard Lisa scream something, but couldn't make out the words. He looked through the center of the carousel, to see if Lisa was still hanging on over on the opposite side.
"I guess it's slowing down," He thought, as he saw something shimmer in the center of the carousel.
Looking more intently to see what was sparkling, a glowing disembodied head suddenly appeared, definitely female, with long flowing white energy for hair. Giving Jake a big smile and a wink, it disappeared with a pop and a giggle.
The ride immediately came to a complete stop, with the music still playing.